《神圣政体和世俗政体》囊括了所有**的经典原著，但与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度，以便能够纳入范围广泛、不那么出名的作品。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概、进一步阅读指南，以及必要的词汇表和原文注解。

In the time of our divisions, and the execution of God'sjudgements upon the three nations, I set my self to enquire into thecauses of our sad and woeful condition, and to think of someremedies to prevent our ruin. Whilst I was busy in this search, I easilyunderstood, that the subject of our differences was, not only the statebut the church. This gave occasion to peruse such authors as write ofgovernment, and to study the political part of the holy Scriptures,wherein I found many things concerning the constitution, theadminsu'ation, the corruption, the conversion and subversion of civilstates and kingdoms, with much of church-discipline. There Iobserved certain rules of government in general, and some special,and proper to civil, or else to ecclesiastical polities. All these,accourding to my poor ability I reduced to method, and applied themto our own church and state severally. I further took notice of ourprincipal differences both civil and ecclesiastical, and did freelydeliver mine own judgement concerning the particular parties, andtheir opinions, yet so that I endeavoured to be of no party, as a party.And though in some things I differ from them, yet it was not out ofsingularity, or a humour of opposition, but out of an unfeigned desireof truth; which in many things I found so evident, that whatsoevershould not acknowledge it, must needs be willful, and blinded withpartiality or prejudice. Whilst I go on in this work I easily perceived,that as our sins and impenitency brought God's judgements upon us,l'An almost universal explanation: 'But our sins being ripe, there was no preventing of God's Justice, from reaping that glory in our Calamities, which we robbed him of in our prosperitie,' Eikon Basilike (London, 1649), P. 4.
My first thanks are to the editors of Cambridge Texts in the History ofPolitical Thought for inviting me to prepare this edition. This was donelargely in Cambridge during 1990. Specifically my thanks to RichardTuck for advice given despite the toils of bringing his edition ofLeviathan to its conclusion; to Raymond Geuss; and especially toQuentin Skinner for help and much typical kindness. During my stay inCambridge, solicited and unsolicited assistance saved hours of time. Much of this help was given during lunch at Clare Hall and duringrandom, if sometimes subversive, breaks in the University Library TeaRoom. My thanks to the denizens of the latter and to the fellows andAnthony Low, President of the former - a college of surpassingfriendliness.
In particular I am grateful to Hugh Williamson for transliteratingHebrew, Pascalis Kitromilides for advice on some of the Greek, JohnKilcullen for helping with Lawson's non-citation of medieval texts.Additional thanks are due to John Morrill and Mark Goldie, and to IanMaclean, who made me feel a little less foolish for being unable to tracea reference to Grotius; to Bruce Kaye (for more Hebrew); to PaddySchreuder for all the hard work on Dr Carr's convoluted andmisprinted poem; to Averil Condren for further help, sub-editing andthe index; and to Libi Nugent for keyboard skills, intelligent attentionto detail and her wry patience. My thanks also to Laurien Berkeley forcopy-editing.
I am grateful to the University of New South Wales Faculty of ArtsResearch Grants Committee for financial support. To Dona Haycraftand John Chalmers, who turned casual neighbourliness into lastingfellowship, my part in this text is dedicated.

Preface
Editor’s introduction
A note on the text
Bibliographical guide
Biographical notes
Principal dates
Politica Sacra et Civilis
Epistle to the reader
Dedicatory poem
The arguments of the several chapters
1 Of government in general,and the original thereof
2 Of government in general,and of a community civil
3 Of aneccoesiastical community
4 Of a commonwealth ingeneral,and power civil
5 OF the manner how civil power is acquired
6 Of power ecclesiastical
7 Of the manner of acquiring ecclesiastical power
8 Of the disposition of power civil,and the several forms of government
9 Of the disposition of ecclesiastical power:and first,whether it be due unto the bishop of Rome
10 Whether the civil state have any tood title to the power of the Keys
11 Whether episcopacy be the primary subject of the Power of the Keys
12 Whether episcopacy or presbyters be the Primary subject of the Power of the Keys
13 That the government of the church is not purely democratical,but like that of a free state,wherein the power is in the whole ,not in any part ,which is the author s judgement
14 Of the extent of a particular church
15 Of subjection in general,and the subjects of a civil state
16 Of subjects in an ecclesiastical polity
Index
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